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The headquarters of the Multinational Force and Observers
(MFO) in the Sinai was attacked on Friday night by dozens of Bedouin
Salafi gunmen, Israel’s Channel 2 News reported. Dozens of gunmen, in
some 50 vehicles, surrounded the base and then 60-70 of them burst in,
storming into the base amid heavy gunfire.
First reports of the attack surfaced a little after 8 p.m. local
time. Half-an-hour later, Channel 2 reported that Egyptian troops in 11
armored vehicles had arrived at the base, to try to help to restore
order.

Friday, September 14, 2012

Islamic terrorismhas been part of the American story, since the first (1801-1805) and the second (1815) US wars against Libya, Tunisia and Algeria-based Muslim pirates.
Anti-US Islamic terrorism has been fueled by Islam's imperialistic
vision, inflamed by core American values - irrespective of American
national security policy - systematically and deliberately targeting
innocent Americans in the US and abroad.Premeditated Islamic terrorism, accompanied by "We are all bin Ladenchanting, marked the 11th anniversary of 9/11in Libya and Egypt. Iterupted
irrespective of the crucial role played by the US in the toppling of
Qaddafi and Mubarak, the rough US pressure on Israel and the financial
and political US support of the Palestinian Authority. The US
Ambassador to Libya and his three staff members were murdered, and
rocket propelled grenades destroyed the Consulate in Benghazi. The US
Embassies in Cairo and Sana'a were stormed, and US flags were burned in
Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, Gaza, etc. Libyan, Egyptian and Yemenite
security forces were alerted, but did not prevent the assault.

Palestinians noticed that in many
cities, Fatah activists were organizing and leading the anti-Fayyad
protests. Palestinian Security forces had been instructed not to prevent
the protesters from burning posters and effigies of Fayyad.

It is no secret that Fatah has long been trying to get rid of Fayyad
who, its representatives argue, had been imposed on the Palestinians by
the Americans and Europeans.

Abbas and Fatah have been trying for years to replace Fayyad with one
of their own so that they could regain control over the Palestinian
Authority's finances.

The US and most Western donors have repeatedly made it clear to Abbas
that removing Fayyad from his post would prompt them to reconsider
financial aid to the Palestinians.
Fatah leaders in the West Bank were hoping that the street protests
would force Fayyad to resign. But the prime minister's refusal to
succumb to the immense pressure (and threats) has left most of these
leaders deeply disappointed.

Two historic attacks on U.S. territory marked the 11th
anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, and what happened? The Obama
administration surrendered our constitutional principles.
The
first was a "blasphemy" riot that breached the walls of the U.S. Embassy
in Cairo, whereupon thugs burned the American flag and hoisted in its
place the traditional black flag of Islam that flies over al-Qaida and
other jihad movements.

The second was a military-style assault
against the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, believed to have been
mounted by a militia known as Ansar al-Sharia ("Partisans of Islamic
Law"), which formed in the U.S.-supported anti-Gadhafi revolution.
Christopher Stevens, U.S. ambassador to Libya and former point man to
the al-Qaida-linked revolutionaries, and three staff members were
killed. Five more Americans were wounded, and the American outpost
burned under another black flag of jihad.
An obscure,
made-in-the-USA movie critical of Muhammad has been blamed for "causing"
these attacks. In fact, it is people in Egypt and Libya who committed
these two unprovoked acts of war to mark the 9/11 anniversary. The
official response?

here comes a time for putting
aside worldly matters, as vastly significant as they seem these days. A
time for looking inward and for acknowledging the kingship of the
Almighty. That time approaches with Rosh Hashana, which begins Sunday at
evening and lasts until Tuesday night.

Credit:
Hebrewpodcasts

As we are judged, we must accept
accountability for our behavior, pray for a good and sweet year to come,
and acknowledge that our future is in the hands of Hashem. The 100
blasts of the shofar that we hear each day serve to awaken us; they, too, are a
cry to Heaven.

Thursday, September 13, 2012

As far as Hamas and the
Palestinian Authority are concerned, it all started when Israel fired
back. And they want the rest of the world to adopt this line. Sadly,
there is no shortage of naïve people in the West who share this
argument. These terrorists are causing more harm to the Palestinians
than anyone else. But the two parties would like to see the terror
attacks continue so that they can have an excuse to denounce Israel
whenever the IDF fires back.

The Palestinians' two illegitimate governments have once again
denounced Israeli "aggression" against the "helpless" residents of the
Gaza Strip.

Such denunciations always come after the Israel Defense Forces
succeed in foiling a terror attack from the Gaza Strip or fire back at
terrorists who launch rockets and missiles at Israeli targets.

The Hamas government, which sometimes turns a blind eye to
anti-Israel terror attacks, is usually the first to condemn Israel
whenever the IDF fires back or takes action to thwart the firing of
rockets and missiles.

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

http://www.pmo.gov.il/English/MediaCenter/Events/Pages/eventbulgari110912.aspx
I want to welcome you, my good friends, Prime Minister Borissov, Boyko, and
your delegation, to Israel. This is our second Government to Government
meeting. It expresses a real friendship. Now that friendship was there
before we began these series of meetings, because we have a human bridge in
the many Jews who came from Bulgaria and the example of courage and
principle of Bulgaria, Bulgarians in Sophia in World War Two during the
Holocaust.

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

972mag's Noam Sheizaf brings us a fantastic example of how Arabs will never accept the existence of Jews as equals in the Middle East.

A Jordanian "anti-normalization" group put out a notice to ban all
"Zionists" from traveling to Jordan to attend an after-party with a
popular Lebanese band called Mashrou Leila (that recently canceled a gig opening
for the Red Hot Chili Peppers in Beirut because the RHCP are playing in
Israel.) Apparently, many anti-Zionist Israelis are big fans of the
band.

In 2008, 49 percent of
Israelis supported McCain and 31 percent of Israelis supported Obama.
In 2012, Obama is down to 21 percent support while Romney is at 48
percent.
The difference clearly down not come down to Romney’s popularity. Nor
is it about Obama’s Muslim roots. It is very clearly about his foreign
policy. But it’s also about Israel’s more conservative voting
demographics.

Israelis have hardly any gender gap when it comes to Obama. He ranks
at 21 percent with women and 23 percent with men– so that in a reversal,
more Israeli women than men dislike Obama. Among conservative voters,
Obama polls between 5 and 7 percent. Among voters to the left, he polls
at 41 percent, which should also tell you how badly the Israeli left has
shrunk that these voters have only a marginal impact on the national
average.

Monday, September 10, 2012

Many people -- certainly outside
of the country, but also right here -- are unaware of the land theft by Arabs
that is taking place in Israel. It is occurring in Judea and Samaria,
and in the Negev.

This is a problem of huge
dimensions. In the main, it is being addressed by a splendid organization
called Regavim -- http://www.regavim.org.il/en/index.php/about-us/about-us --
which describes itself as a social movement established to promote a Jewish
Zionist agenda for the State of Israel.

At the climax of the Yom Kippur services, and the conclusion of the
Jewish High Holy Days, some two weeks from now, millions of Jews around
the world will cry out, "Next Year in Jerusalem", expressing their hope
for a final redemption.

There is a similar faith at the heart of the DNC's amended platform
which states, "Jerusalem is and will remain the capital of Israel. The
parties have agreed that Jerusalem is a matter for final status
negotiations."

Like the Jews praying for Jerusalem, the DNC's platform supports a
Jerusalem as Israel's capital that is not a material Jerusalem, but a
spiritual Jerusalem, a place that will come into being only when the
messiah of the peace process has come and the terrorists have put down
their guns and after twenty or two thousand or twenty thousand years
have agreed to some final status agreement that falls short of making
full territorial claims on the capital of Jerusalem.

Sunday, September 09, 2012

As an example of what the insightful commentator Melanie Phillips referred to as a "dialogue of the demented" in her book The World Turned Upside Down,
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas recently continued a long tradition
of attempting to de-Judaize Jerusalem by expressing his mendacious
notion that "Jerusalem's identity is Arab, and the city's and Christian
holy sites must be protected from Israeli threats." The same scholar of
history who wrote a doctoral dissertation that questioned the extent
and truthfulness of the Holocaust was now making his own historical
claim that there has never been a Jewish presence and history in the
world's holiest city.

Israeli archeology and biblical links to Jerusalem, and
specifically the Temple Mount, "will not undermine the fact that the
city will forever be Arabic, Islamic and Christian," Abbas crowed,
adding that "there will be no peace or stability before our beloved city
and eternal capital is liberated from occupation and settlement,"
suggesting that even Jerusalem itself is in fact occupied and that it
was, and still is, the capital of a putative Palestinian state. This
airbrushing out of a Jewish presence from Jerusalem -- in fact, all of
Palestine -- is not a new message for Abbas, of course. In 2000 he
expressed similar contempt for the idea that a Jewish temple had ever
existed on the Temple Mount and that, even if it had existed, the
offenses committed by Israel against the Palestinians negated any claim
Jews might have enjoyed, absent their perfidy. "Anyone who wants to
forget the past [i.e., the Israelis] cannot come and claim that the
[Jewish] temple is situated beneath the Haram," he asserted in a 2000
article in Kul Al-Arab, an Israeli Arabic-language weekly newspaper.
"They demand that we forget what happened 50 years ago to the refugees
... while at the same time they claim that 2000 years ago they had a
temple. I challenge the assertion that this is so. But even if it is so,
we do not accept it, because it is not logical for someone who wants a
practical peace."

In characterizing East Jerusalem -- or any part of Jerusalem, for
that matter -- as territory that Israel "occupies" but over which it
enjoys no sovereignty, Abbas (and the Obama administration's State
Department, too) is misreading, once again, the content and purpose of
1967's U.N. Security Council Resolution 242 that suggested an Israeli
withdrawal "from territories" it acquired in the Six-Day War. Critics
of Israeli policy who either willfully misread or deliberately obscure
the resolution's purpose say that the Jewish State is in violation of
242 by continuing to occupy the West Bank and Jerusalem, including what
is mistakenly now referred to as "Arab" East Jerusalem. But the
drafters of Resolution 242 were very precise in creating the statute's
language, and they never considered Jerusalem to have been "occupied" by
Israel after the Six-Day War. Former U.S. ambassador to the U.N.,
Arthur Goldberg, one of the resolution's authors, made this very clear
when he wrote some years later that "Resolution 242 in no way refers to
Jerusalem, and this omission was deliberate[.] ... At no time in [my]
many speeches [before the U.N.] did I refer to East Jerusalem as
occupied territory."

Along with their unwavering and various demands, including a "right
of return" of all refugees and sovereignty over the Temple Mount, the
Palestinians now insist that Jerusalem must be divided to give them a
capital in its eastern portion as the location of their new state. That
view is troubling because it reveals a pattern in which Arabs endow
Jerusalem with intense significance to serve purposes of political
expediency. In fact, observed scholar of Islam and Middle East Forum
director Daniel Pipes, "[a]n historical survey shows that the stature of
the city, and the emotions surrounding it, inevitably rises for Muslims
when Jerusalem has political significance. Conversely, when the utility
of Jerusalem expires, so does its status and the passions about it."
When Jordan illegally annexed the West Bank and purged Jerusalem of its
Jews from 1949 to 1967, for example, Jerusalem's stature declined. But
Israel's recapture of the territory in 1967 changed the political
landscape, including an Arab desire for Jerusalem, suggesting to Dr.
Pipes that "the Muslim interest lies not so much in controlling
Jerusalem as it does in denying control over the city to anyone else."

Dore Gold, Israel's U.N. ambassador from 1997 to 1999, observed in his book, The Fight for Jerusalem: Radical Islam, the West, and the Future of the Holy City,
how many in the Muslim world, and even some individuals in the West,
have begun a sinister process aimed at establishing a spiritual as well
as political presence in Jerusalem for Islam, while simultaneously
diminishing Jewish historical links to the city. Gold believes that
this trend began at the 2000 Camp David meetings, when Yasser Arafat
first stated loudly and publicly his breathtaking belief that there had
never been a Jewish temple at the Temple Mount. Arafat, according to
Gold, thereby tossed "a stone of historical lies into a lake and its
ripples spread all over the Middle East. 'Temple Denial' became a common
theme at seminars in the UAE or in Jordan in the years that followed.
European professors joined this anti-biblical trend."

Ever since Camp David, the Palestinians have been relentless in
creating a false impression of how important Jerusalem is to them,
while, at the same time, they have de-Judaized Jerusalem and tried to
obscure the Jewish relationship with and continuing presence in the holy
city -- something Middle East scholar Martin Kramer has called their
desire to effect "a reversal of history."

Writing in al-Hayat al-Jadida, in March of 2009, for instance, Dr.
Tayseer Al-Tamimi, PA chief justice of religious court and chairman of
supreme council of Islamic law, absurdly claimed that "Jerusalem is the
religious, political and spiritual capital of Palestine," meaning a
Palestinian Palestine, and that "the Jews have no rights to it." But
the true danger of the Palestinian thinking about Jerusalem -- and,
indeed, about all of the Palestine that they covet, including Israel
itself -- was crystallized in Yasser Arafat's own view that he expressed
in a July 2000 edition of al-Hayat al-Jadida. "I will not
agree to any sovereign presence in Jerusalem," he wrote, referring to
the thorny issue of who, Israel or the Palestinians, would have
sovereignty of the Holy Basin -- "neither in the Armenian quarter, nor
in the Al-Aqsa Mosque, neither in Via De La Rosa, nor in the Church of
the Holy Sepulchre. They can occupy us by force, because we are weaker
now, but in two years, ten years, or one hundred years, there will be
someone who will liberate Jerusalem [from them]."

"Liberating" Jerusalem, of course, does not mean transforming it
into a pluralistic, open city where members of three major faiths can
live freely and practice their religions openly. Liberating Jerusalem
for the Palestinians would be more in keeping with the type of
liberation that Transjordan's Arab League effected when they burned and
looted the Jewish Quarter in Jerusalem in 1948; expelled and killed its
hapless Jewish population; destroyed some 58 synagogues, many hundreds
of years old; unearthed gravestones from the history-laden Jewish
cemetery on the Mount of Olives and used them for latrine pavers; and
barred any Jew from praying at the Western Wall or entering the Temple
Mount. That same predilection to destroy religious property was on
display again shortly after Camp David, when a crazed Palestinian mob
took sledgehammers to Joseph's Tomb, a Jewish holy site, and completely
obliterated it as Palestinian policemen stood idly by and watched.

More to the point, Abbas's accusations that Israel threatens or
cannot coexist with Muslim and Christian traditions is a most outrageous
charge -- not only because Israeli archeologists are fastidious in
methodology and practice, but also, given what is happening currently
atop the Temple Mount itself -- one of the world's richest archeological
and historical sites. Indeed, this tragedy is something that the
Muslim world, not the Israelis, should have to answer for.

Scholars and archeologists remember, for instance, the howls of
outrage that arose from the Arab world in February 2007, when Israeli
authorities initiated a project to rebuild a ramp to the Mugrabi Gate,
an entrance to the Temple Mount plaza and the Al Aqsa Mosque platform
that had been damaged in an earlier storm. Riots and protests began
immediately, with accusations against Israel coming from throughout the
Arab world for its "scheme" and treachery in digging under and
threatening to destroy the Al Aqsa Mosque itself. The committee of
Muslim scholars in Jordan's Islamic Action Front, for one, "urge[d] ...
jihad to liberate Al Aqsa and save it from destruction and sabotage from
Jewish usurpers" -- a spurious claim, since construction was taking
place well outside the Mount platform, some 100 meters from the mosque,
and clearly posed no possible threat. It is also an oft-repeated
charge, suggests Israeli columnist Nadav Shragrai, frequently used by
Arabs against Israel as a way of inciting hatred toward Jews for their
perfidiousness and guile. This he calls the "Protect the Al Aqsa
Mosque" blood libel -- a propaganda tool that has been used since the
1920s to cause mistrust of Jews when the then-Grand Mufti Haj Amin
al-Husseini, Hitler's Middle East ally, exhorted Muslims everywhere to
defend Islamic holy places in Jerusalem from the pernicious Jews,
causing riots, bloodshed, and 133 Jewish deaths.

And while riots ensued in recent years when Israelis initiated a
carefully supervised reconstruction project near the Temple Mount, the
Islamic Waqf, the Muslim guardians of the Judaism's holiest site, have
felt no compunction in brutally gouging the historic surfaces when it
suited their own purposes, either in 2007 when they created a deep
trench or as they did in 1999 when they opened a gaping hole -- in what
is known as Solomon's Stables -- 18,000 square feet in area and 36 feet
deep, for new mosques. Most seriously, 13,000 tons of rubble from that
criminal dig, containing rich archeological remnants from the First and
Second Temple periods, was scattered clandestinely in the Kidron Valley
dump without any professional archeological oversight and before experts
could evaluate any unearthed items of significance.

The Arab world's own complicity in playing fast and loose with
history, and obscuring the actual "facts on the ground" in their attempt
to create a historical narrative conforming to their political agenda,
makes Abbas's accusations against Jews bent on the undermining of Muslim
and Christian holy sites all the more disingenuous. In yet another
example of "turnspeak," the Arab world has accused Israel of the
misdeeds, lies about history, and destruction of a nationhood that they
themselves are committing. It is part of a relentless and continuing
effort to delegitimize Israel and finally eliminate it through a false
historical narrative that is repeated in Palestinian schoolbooks, in
sermons, in the Arab press, in Middle Eastern study centers at
universities, and in the politicized scholarship and dialogue generated
by Israel-haters, anti-Semites, and Palestinian apologists around the
world -- something Shragai has aptly called a "tissue of lies."

Dr. Richard L. Cravatts, author of Genocidal Liberalism: The University's Jihad Against Israel & Jews, is president of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East.

Editors’ note:
In the following speech accepting the Ben Hecht Award for Outstanding
Journalism from the Zionist Organization of America, David Horowitz
notes that he wants everything that the Zionists want–a muscular Israel willing and able to defy the growing Jew hatred in the world; a Jewish State “armed to the teeth” and ready to use its military; an Israel augmented by the addition of its historical birthright of Judea and Samaria.
Yet the paradox is that until now, Horowitz notes, he has never
considered himself a Zionist in the sense that Theodor Herzl and other
founders used that term. Herzl’s
dream was that a Jewish homeland would “normalize” the Jewish people in
the eyes of an historically hostile world, end their persecution, and
“solve” the “Jewish problem.”Horowitz
states that he always considered this possibility to be a “fairy tale”
because of his understanding of the way envy and hatred operate on the
international scene, especially with the advent of “Third Worldism.” In addition to becoming a refuge, Israel also became a magnet for homocidal intentions.
The events of 9/11 changed everything.

Last night, a house was destroyed in Netivot
(a city of 26,500 residents) after a rocket hit its living room. The
following are pictures demonstrating the damage inflicted to the house.

Since the beginning of 2012, more than 455 rockets have hit Israel. Over the past 9 days of September more than 10 rockets hit southern Israel, triggering alarms in the nearby communities.

Due to the heavy threat to the lives of Israeli civilians, school has been canceled for more than 40,000 children in Beer Sheva.

The
IDF will not tolerate any attempt by terrorist groups to target Israeli
civilians and IDF soldiers, and will continue to operate against those
who use terror against the State of Israel. The Hamas terror organization is solely responsible for any terrorist activity emanating from the Gaza Strip.

Salafist terrorists’ claim of launching missile attacks on southern Israel Saturday night exposes a growing difficulty for Hamas to maintain control over the Gaza.
One house suffered a direct hit from the Gran missile and sustained
heavy damage. Another rocket landed in an open area in Be’er Sheva,
Israel’s seventh largest city. Be’er Sheva shut down its school system
Sunday morning in the wake of the latest attack.
"We claim responsibility for firing two rockets on Friday against the
region of Sdot Negev," said the statement signed by the hard-line
Islamist splinter group called the Mujahedeen Shura Council and reported
by the French AFP news agency.

Caroline Glick & Mark Levin: The Israeli Solution -- A One-State Pla

Why Israel Opposes International Forces in the Jordan Valley

U.S. scholars' group votes in favor of academic boycott of Israel

Yet another indication of the absolute corruption of American academia today. "US scholars' group votes in favor of academic boycott of Israel," from the Jerusalem Post, December 16: NEW YORK – The 5,000-member American Studies Association (ASA), which describes itself as “the nation’s oldest and largest association devoted to...http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/12/us-scholars-group-votes-in-favor-of-academic-boycott-of-israel.html

Israel Living Prophecy

A senior New Israel Fund officer told a U.S. official in 2010 that the disappearance of the Jewish state would not be a tragedy, according to a document that was leaked by Wikileaks...She commented that she believed that in 100 years Israel would be majority Arab and that the disappearance of a Jewish state would not be the tragedy that Israelis fear since it would become more democratic.

Mideast expert Michael Widlanski: Fatah is a joke

US-Israeli talks focus on Ahmadinejad's possible ouster

How to exploit the deep cracks forming in Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's administration for removing the Iranian president was a top item on the agenda of the high-level talks between Barack Obama's advisers and Israeli officials at Mossad headquarters in Herzliya, north of Tel Aviv, Wednesday, July 29.

DEBKAfile's Iranian sources report that Ahmadinejad's cabinet is falling apart; of his original lineup of 21 ministers, only nine remain at their posts.

The Identity Of The Land

Why the Palestinians need to recognize the Jewish State

We do NOT support a 2-state solution

A January 2009 poll found that Americans oppose creating a Palestinian state by 45-31 percent. A February 2009 Maagar Mohot Survey Institute poll has also shown that Israelis oppose creating a Palestinian state by 51-32 percent.

Many other polls tell a similar story.

These figures suggest that Americans and Israelis have understood that creating a Palestinian state under current conditions will not bring peace but merely another terror state.

Netanya,Israel

Jerusalem At Night

Why reconstruct Gaza without making demands

- that Shalit be release without convicted terrorists being released by Israel in exchange,

- that the US be put in charge of the southern border to ensure that Hamas isn’t rearmed?

- that their three preconditions be accepted by Hamas, i.e. agree to all former agreements,recognize Israel and renounce terror

- that Hamas amend their Charter

- That Hamas disconnect from Iran

The answer is that they don’t want to.

Children of Hamas

Picture of Hamas children the media does not show you

IDF: Civilian Deaths in Gaza Less than 25% of Total

A maximum of 25% of the Palestinians killed in Gaza since the beginning of the Israeli operation are innocent civilians, the head of the IDF's Gaza Coordination and Liaison Administration (CLA), Col. Moshe Levi, said Wednesday. According to Palestinian medical officials, Israel has killed some 1,000 Palestinians and more than half of them are civilians. Levi said the CLA had compiled a list with the names of 900 Palestinians killed during the fighting. He said that 150 names were of women, children and elderly, and that the maximum number of civilians killed so far was 250. Levi also dismissed claims that 43 Palestinians were killed in an IDF attack on a Hamas terror cell that was firing mortars at Israeli forces from within an UNRWA school in Jabalya. Levi said 21 Palestinians were killed in the attack, including a number of Hamas operatives. (Jerusalem Post)

Hamas teaching the children of Gaza

An Iranian reformist daily newspaper has criticized Hamas "for risking lives of civilians, amongst them children, by hiding its forces in nurseries and hospitals." This is reported in today's Palestinian daily Al-Ayyam. The Palestinian daily adds that in response the Iranian government has closed the newspaper.

"The Iranian news agency "Irna" reported yesterday, that the Iranian Culture Ministry has closed the reformist daily newspaper "Karjo Zaran", because it published a report that included criticism of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas). On December 30 the paper published a statement of a reformist student organization, that has criticized Hamas for risking lives of civilians, amongst them children, by hiding its forces in nurseries and hospitals. The statement was published whilst the Iranian government expresses a unified stands against Israel, and Tehran is overwhelmed by demonstrations against Israel."

[Al-Ayyam, Jan. 1, 2009] Thanks PMW

Iran-backed Hamas Rocket, Mortar Attacks and Nuclear Developments

9,400+ rockets and mortars fired from Gaza since 2003. [1]3,200+ rockets and mortars fired from Gaza in 2008 alone. [2]6,500+ rockets and mortars fired from Gaza since Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005. [3]543+ rockets and mortars fired from Gaza into Israeli territory during the ceasefire from June 19 to Dec. 19, 2008. [4]28 deaths caused by rockets and mortars fired from Gaza into Israel since 2001. The dead include Israelis, Palestinians and foreign workers. Since the ceasefire ended, Iran-backed Palestinian groups in Gaza fired rockets and mortars that killed an Israeli-Arab construction worker and a mother of four who was seeking shelter in a bus station as a rocket warning siren sounded. [5]1,000+ people in Israel injured from rockets and mortars fired from Gaza since 2001, including Israelis, Palestinians and foreign workers. Since the ceasefire, 44 Israelis have been injured and 200 have been treated for shock. [6]Thanks Israel Project

It began with this...

The British Foreign Office, November 2nd, 1917Dear Lord Rothschild,I have much pleasure in conveying to you, on behalf of His Majesty’s Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations which has been submitted to, and approved by, the Cabinet.

“His Majesty’s Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate theachievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities inPalestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.”I should be grateful if you would bring this declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist Federation.2

Signed,Arthur James Balfour[Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs]

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About Me

Semi-retired Professor, now also permanent resident of Israel;divides time between both countries-serves on several Boards of Directors for Israel advocacy groups;Chana, resident of Jerusalem, JCPA member

Syria is an Occupier-Are You Listening World?

As of this minute, Syria occupies at least 177 square miles of Lebanese soil. That you are now reading about it for the first time is as much a scandal as the occupation itself.

The news comes by way of a fact-finding survey of the Lebanese-Syrian border just produced by the International Lebanese Committee for UN Security Council Resolution 1559, an American NGO that has consultative status with the UN. In meticulous detail - supplemented by photographs and satellite images - the authors describe precisely where and how Lebanon has been infiltrated.

Though the land grabs are small affairs individually, they collectively add up to an area amounting to about 4% of Lebanese soil - in U.S. terms, the proportional equivalent of Arizona. Of particular note is that the area of Syrian conquest dwarves that of the Israeli-occupied Shebaa Farms which amount to an area of about 12 square miles.

It would be nice to see the Arab world protest this case of illegal occupation, given its passions about the subject.

Information worth Possessing

"Israel gave the Palestinians an autonomy in 42% of the West Bank and Gaza after the Oslo accords in the early 90's. Over 92% of Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza were then under the administration of the Palestinian Authority and its Chairman Yasser Arafat.

"Israel is surrounded by 10 hostile Arab countries who do not even recognize its right to exist ( Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Algeria, Lybia, Morocco, Tunisia, Aden) and Iran"